In our sleep, we witness our own courage and cowardice, witness our own nobility, and also see our own humility, perhaps only here can we have the most true self.

- Ouyang was ashamed

Looking at Wu Zhen's jealous face, I smiled awkwardly and said, "Where is it, I, I see that they are pitiful, let them live."

Wu Zhen walked up, looked at the sky that began to turn slightly white in the distance, and whispered softly, "How long are you going to stay here?"

"As soon as we pick up Yu'er, we'll leave immediately," I said hurriedly.

Wu Zhen looked at me with a smile, shook his head and said, "That's not what I mean, go back to the house, it's not good to be found in a while"

"Oh" I looked around in a panic, and then looked at the illusion of the cage safety, followed Wu Zhen hurriedly back to the house, and after a while, Dan Er also came in, just now he was obviously helping me to cover, at this time I saw that Wu Zhen and I were sitting in the house, and hurriedly came up and said: "You are too messy, in case you are discovered by Hongyuan's clansmen, isn't this an extraneous branch?"

"That'...... Then you can't die without help, right?" I said helplessly.

"Those are just some desolate souls, why do you bother?" said Dan Er rather dissatisfied.

"It's all living creatures, how can it be because of ...... Because what kind of desolate soul is it to ignore it?" I argued.

"Okay, let's stop fighting about these things first" Wu Zhen interjected from the side: "It's better to think about it in advance, in case we are discovered, how can we get out"

Dan Er sighed, shook his head and said: "Although my father is the patriarch of the Zhao clan, they will have some scruples, but just now you also saw that they attach great importance to the goblin they captured, and it is inevitable that there will be entanglement, and the Hongyuan clan has always been perverse, and it is inevitable that there will be trouble, I am afraid that it will not be so easy to get out, and the jade is in their hands, I am afraid that this return trip will inevitably cause trouble."

"But you just came forward to help him, didn't you?" Wu Zhen said softly as he stared at Dan Er.

"I'm ......" Dan Er said halfway, sighed, and continued helplessly: "Anyway, let's take one step at a time, I guess for the sake of my father's face, they shouldn't be too much"

The three of them were silent for a while, but they really had no other ideas, they just hoped that before the matter was revealed, they could see Yu'er as soon as possible and leave this land of right and wrong as soon as possible.

Soon dawn, a clansman sent a coarse tea porridge breakfast, after the three of them simply ate, anxiously stayed in the house waiting for news, but until noon, Yu'er and another old-timer still had no news, anxious, the three of them went out of the house together to wander around, last night night dark vision was not clear, this time came out to find that this place is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the other side is a deserted wilderness, ignorant and completely unable to figure out where they are.

The illusion in the cage was still solid inside, and the clansmen were busy and didn't find anything abnormal, until lunchtime, when the three of them returned to the house and were halfway through eating, there was a sudden commotion outside the house, and they didn't know what was going on.

"Oh no, has it been discovered?" I said with some panic, and Wu Zhen also looked embarrassed on the side.

Dan Er raised his hand and motioned for me to be quiet, and then leaned over and whispered: "No matter what happens, don't talk nonsense, I'll negotiate with them, remember, both of you are pretending to be ordinary people of my Zhao clan, don't reveal your identity"

Wu Zhen and I hurriedly nodded in agreement, and at this moment, a clansman ran in and shouted, "Elder Xing is invited!"

The three of them got up and followed out nervously, only to see everyone gathered around the fire, chattering about something, and the old-timers standing on the side saw us come out, and stepped up to us in three or two steps and shouted: "I'm afraid there will be big trouble this time."

Dan Er settled down, pretending to be calm and asked, "What's the big trouble?"

"Look!" the old man held out his hand, holding a black wooden plaque in his hand.

I was stunned for a moment, not understanding what this thing was, but Dan Er frowned and said, "Clan card? Whose clan card is this? What happened?"

"This is my brother's clan card, early this morning, the doll who went out to look for news, found it in the area where we met last night, my brother may have had an accident!"

"Huh?" As soon as I heard the words of the old-timer, I panicked in my heart, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What about Yu'er?

"My brother is gone, where else is there any trace of that girl!" said the old man angrily.

"How so? You—didn't you say that he was very good and that he would never have a problem......? Why do you say that something happened to him now?" I asked anxiously and loudly.

Dan Er couldn't help but ask: "Yes, Hongyuan senior, according to what you said, his ability is above yours, how can you easily conclude that something happened to him?"

The old-timer clenched the clan card tightly, and said angrily: "The clan card is such an important personal evidence, if it is not urgent, he will never easily drop it, this is clearly a signal left for us."

"What signal?" I asked, puzzled.

The old-timer looked up at the mountains on all sides, and said with a solemn expression: "It seems that here, in addition to those rare desolate souls, there may also be powerful characters hidden, we are careless!"

"That'...... So what now?" I asked, panicking.

"I have ordered someone to return to the clan and inform the patriarch of the matter here, and the rest is only to wait for the patriarch to bring other clansmen to come to help, with my brother's strength, the opponent must be extraordinary, without the assistance of the patriarch, we can't act rashly," the old man advised.

Dan Er asked suspiciously: "It stands to reason that if there is really such a powerful desolate spirit, and we were nearby last night, it is impossible not to feel it at all"

"That's what's weird," the old man also looked dazed: "Now either wait for my brother to come back by himself, or I can only wait for the instructions of the patriarch before acting, I have taken care of the clansmen in the stronghold, and I will stop going out these days"

"How many days? how many days are we going to wait?" I asked, incredulous.

"There are no clansmen in my clan who are good at time and space spells, and it will take at least seven days to go back and forth from here to the clan, and if my brother never comes back in the meantime, we will have to wait," the senior said loudly.

"Seven days? What are you kidding, Yu'er is unconscious, and now her whereabouts are unknown, her life and death are uncertain, and the daylilies are cold for seven days" I said angrily: "Right now, go find them right now!"

"What do you know, little ghost? How many scenes have you seen? Do you think this is a play house?" The old-timer scolded loudly: "Even my brother is on the way, what do you want to do with a little ghost? Don't talk about you, even if you add up all the people here, you can't match half of my brother's ability, now go to find them and come back? It's not like sending them to death!"

"Hongyuan senior" Dan Er also said anxiously on the side: "He may not know about the ferocity of the desolate spirit, but it is really not a way to wait here for seven days, before we get help, we should always do something, right?"

"The son of the Zhao family, the old man, I have played countless games with the desolate soul in my life, and I know that the more dangerous it is, the more calm and calm we must be, otherwise it will only cost our lives, and now, where is the opponent sacred, how many are the numbers, and what the strength is, we don't know at all, if we act rashly, it will only increase the sacrifice! Even this morning I asked people to go out to inquire about my brother's news, and now I am afraid to think about it, these four sides have laid an enchantment, if you want to live, it is best to stay here and not mess around."

I was so anxious at this time, how could I listen to this old man talk more nonsense, and I was about to rush out in a hurry, but I was pulled by Wu Zhen, and Dan Er saw that I couldn't feel at ease at all, so I had to turn my head and say anxiously to my seniors: "Hongyuan seniors, the juniors are still young, and they are in the Hongyuan realm at this time, so it is reasonable to follow the warnings of the seniors, but now the situation is not trivial, the missing girl is by no means an ordinary clan, we really can't sit idly by!"

"What are you talking about?" the old man suddenly said angrily, "That girl is definitely not an ordinary clansman?

Dan Er knew that he was speechless, and hurriedly explained: "No, no, the juniors don't mean that......"

"Don't say it again" The old man scolded loudly and interrupted Dan Er, and then said: "Let you not act rashly, this is for your good, you are the clansmen of the Zhao family, if there is a business in my Hongyuan's territory, it will be difficult for us to explain to King Daping, so you have to understand that we will not take into account the safety of that girl, not to mention that my brother's whereabouts are also unknown at this time. Life and death are uncertain, but I said, the more dangerous it is, the more you can't act rashly, now that girl is missing with my brother, if you catch up with you, the second son of King Daping, won't my Hongyuan clan have a bad relationship with the Zhao family? I hope you will also take into account the overall situation, and don't increase the hatred between the two clans!"

After a reprimand, Dan Er bowed his head and was silent, I didn't know what to do for a while, everyone was silent for a moment, and Dan Er finally spoke slowly: "Hongyuan senior, it is taking into account the overall situation, there are some things I wanted to hide, but now it seems that I have to make it clear, otherwise if I delay for a while, I am afraid that it will really be too late."

"Huh?" the old-timer looked at Dan Er with a puzzled face

Dan Er said word by word: "That girl is a prophecy baby girl - chopping jade!"

The senior was stunned for a moment, and was silent for a long time before he suddenly called: "What? prophecy of the baby girl cutting jade? Yes...... Is it the prophetic baby girl recorded in the "Eternal Covenant"?

Dan Er nodded hurriedly and said, "That's right, it's her, and she's in a coma close to awakening now, and she's at a critical moment, in case there's a mistake, then ......"

When the old-timer heard this, he suddenly stumbled, took a few steps back before he could barely stand firm, and muttered to himself: "How is this-how is this possible? How can a baby girl be prophesied...... How could they be here? At such a critical moment, how could there be only these little ghosts with them?"

"It's hard to explain the reason, the younger generation is on the order of her father this time, escorting her back to the sect, I don't want to meet the two seniors halfway, and make this misunderstanding, I didn't expect the consequences to be so serious" Dan Er sighed and continued: "As the son of King Daping, this kind of thing is again, and the younger generation will never dare to talk nonsense"

The old-timer was silent for a long time with a blank look in his eyes, and said with a frightened face: "Brother, we are going to get into a big disaster!"

Seeing that they were all talking about it, I rushed forward and asked, "How is it? Can I go and save people now?"

"Wait...... Wait......" The old man stretched out a trembling hand to stop me, lowered his head and thought for a long time, and said to the people around him with a somewhat panicked expression: "Where is the goblin captured last night?"

A few people responded to the call to move the square platform over, and I glanced at Dan Er and Wu Zhen, and I was panicked for a while, not knowing what he was going to do.

The square platform moved to the front of me, the seemingly sleeping goblin lay motionless under the transparent cover, the old-timer was about to step forward, suddenly stunned there, I stood aside and suddenly found that the lock I pried open forgot to buckle back, it is estimated that it has been exposed.

I saw the old-timers rush forward and lift the transparent cover, stretched out their hands to grab it, and suddenly, the "goblin" turned into a ball of loose sand and scattered all over the ground, the old-timers were stunned, and pushed everyone away suddenly, and looked at it, the "desolate soul" that was originally safely closed in several cages turned into a pile of sand and soil in an instant.

"What's going on, what's going on!" the old man roared at the clansmen, and everyone was stunned, and no one dared to say anything.

"Who kept watch last night?" the old man continued to ask loudly.

After a long time, two young people pushed me out of the crowd, and one of the young people said first: "The front is ...... It's me, but, I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary."

"It's me before dawn, I, I've been staring at them for a good time, no, I don't know why this is happening, could it be that this goblin still has some spells, this thing can't cover it" Another young man stared at Fang Tai nervously and said.

"Fart!" the old-timer rushed forward and slapped his hand, and one of the young people who spoke later fell to the ground, and the other was so frightened that he shrank to the side and trembled and didn't dare to speak again.

"Elder Xing is angry, I am angry! I remember, I remember" The young man who was knocked to the ground struggled to get up, and pointed at us and said: "When it was dawn, he and the three of them were all around this campfire, and they didn't know what to do, I was going to interrogate, but you said that they were distinguished guests, and I, and I didn't dare to ask in detail."

The old man stared at us with round eyes, I knew that I was wrong, but I still had the courage to look righteous and said: "That's right, even if I let them go, they all say that the desolate soul is cruel, but I see that your cruelty is not lost to them at all! I just see that they are pitiful......"

"You hairy doll knows a fart!" The old-timer snapped, stepped forward and slapped me roundly, and was about to hit me, Dan Er was alert, and flew forward and hugged his arm, so that I was spared the pain of flesh and skin.

"Senior Hongyuan, don't mess around, he's ......" Dan Er suddenly paused, and hurriedly changed his words: "He's a member of the Zhao clan, but I'm still here, you can't just do it."

The old-timer pushed Egg Er away, and the push sank vigorously, and Egg Er stumbled suddenly, almost not standing firm.

The old-timer immediately shouted angrily: "You are here, so what! Spread wild on my realm, do you know how rare and important that goblin is, you dolls are reckless, thinking that my Hongyuan clan will be afraid that your Zhao clan will not succeed?"

"The younger generation never meant that" Dan Er hurriedly apologized and said: "It's my clan's fault first, of course this is true, but no matter how you say it, it's just a few desolate souls, the seniors still focus on the clan relationship and the overall situation, and the top priority should be to save the jade first."

"You're light!" The old-timer glared at Dan Er and yelled: "Do you know how important the goblins you let go, I was originally going to sacrifice them to the patriarch, but now that such a big thing has happened, I wanted to rely on its fruit to fight for my life and give it a try, but now it's good, let the goblins run, even if I and these clansmen take my life, can I save my brother and that girl?"

Dan Er was speechless for a while, and he didn't know how to answer, but Wu Zhen stepped forward calmly and said: "Old man, what is the other party, how capable you have not seen it, just a clan card is so pessimistic, I'm afraid I'm a little too nervous."

The old-timer snorted disdainfully: "What do you know about this yellow-haired girl? When my brothers fought against the Desolate Soul, your little doll had not yet been born, and I would not understand the severity of the situation as well as you?"

"That's natural" Wu Zhen said slowly: "It's just that our group was in a good hurry, after all, the cause of this incident lies with your second elder, and if it is delayed like this, I am afraid that there will really be no hope of recovery."

"You!" The old-timer was choked by Wu Zhen's words, and he couldn't answer the next sentence for a long time, and his hands trembled in anger.

"Senior Hongyuan, this matter is very important, in my opinion, let's go as soon as possible to save people" Dan Er stepped forward and said: "If you are worried that you and your clan will be implicated, then don't bother, we will go by ourselves"

After that, Dan Er gave me a look, intending to let Wu Zhen and I leave with him.

"Wait!" The old-timers behind him shouted to stop us, and the three of them immediately stood and waited for his words, the old-timers sighed heavily, and then said: "That's it, that's it, it's all my brothers' own doing, even if you lose your life today, you have to exchange for this glimmer of hope, you go alone, in case there is a mistake in my Hongyuan realm, offending the Zhao clan is a small matter, in case the great sage awakens in the future, because my clan lost the life of the prophecy girl, this sin is afraid that the whole clan will not be able to bear it."

After that, the old-timers turned around and took care of the other clansmen waiting for reinforcements here, and specially took care that if we didn't come back, they must not act rashly, and they must wait until the clansmen came to the rescue, and then only sent the clansman who found the clan card to lead the way, plus the three of us, a group of five people headed towards the mountains.

didn't go far, the old-timer stopped and said: "Zhao family boy, just now I was angry and thoughtful, according to me, a few of you should go back to the stronghold first, it's not easy to say anything in front of you, it doesn't matter if I have an old bone horizontally, but in order to avoid mistakes and increase the conflict between the two clans, you little guys should not follow."

Dan Er was stunned, looked at me, and then said: "Seniors are too worried, escorting the prophecy baby girl is where my mission is this time, and now that something has gone wrong, I can't retreat, as for the two of them, ......" Dan Er looked at me and Wu Zhen again, and said: "It's okay, you guys go back to the stronghold to avoid it first, and Hongyuan seniors and I will definitely do our best to bring them back"

"Haha good boy" The old-timer laughed and praised: "Zhao Zichen, this kid really teaches his son well, at this juncture, regardless of his own safety, he can give priority to his own people, it's rare, it's really rare!"

Seeing this, I stepped forward and said: "I won't go back, there has never been a girl who treats me like Yu'er, and now I have suffered so many changes, and Yu'er has an accident again, how can I go back, it is absolutely impossible"

"Don't be stubborn, your safety is related to ......" Dan Er saw that I was unwilling, and he was anxious all of a sudden, and quickly stopped the words when he came to his mouth, and changed his words: "You have to go back safely to explain the situation here to the clan, and there can be no mistakes"

"I will never go back" After I insisted categorically, I turned my head to look at Wu Zhen and said: "Why don't you go back and take me to leave a message for my father"

Wu Zhen shook his head and chuckled: "The last thing you should worry about is me, I said a little earlier, nothing in this world can hurt me, since you insist on going, I must go together, and I may be able to protect you in times of crisis."

Seeing that neither of us would leave, Dan Er hurriedly said, "Don't be stubborn, the overall situation, you have to ...... for the overall situation"

"Hahaha, good! The Zhao clan is really not a coward" The old-timer suddenly laughed and interrupted Dan Er, and praised and said: "Even a few little dolls can be fearless in danger, not to mention whether this girl is boasting about Haikou, this courage alone is also worthy of appreciation, okay! Since even you Zhao Gongzi refuse to back down, no matter how many of you two dolls, it doesn't matter, then let's all follow."

Saying that, the old-timers sent the clansmen who led the way to continue the journey, and the three of us followed, and along the way, Dan Er was always full of anxiety, and he wanted to speak several times, but he didn't say anything after all.

The five people finally arrived near the clearing under the mountain the night before dusk, the clansmen who led the way led us into a forest next to it, and soon there was a faint sound of water in front of us, and then walked a little, suddenly a small ravine, the stream under the ditch was murmuring, several people walked all the way upstream along the side of the stream, not far away, the stream meandered to the other side, revealing a small open space in front of him, the clansman who led the way stopped next to a big tree on the edge of the clearing, pointed to a chisel mark on the tree and said: " Elder Xing, the clan card was found here, and when it was found, it was inserted in the trunk of this tree."

The old-timer stepped forward to look at the chisel marks, took out the clan card and compared it, and then glanced at the opposite side of the creek in the opposite direction and said: "It seems that my brother met with an accident here, and he should have gone to the other side of the stream."

The three of us looked around, a green grass, I really couldn't see any traces of fierce confrontation, think about last night, even if Dan Er and the old-timers fought, at least there were many traces on the ground, it is said that both sides are better characters than the old-timers, and the surroundings should not be so smooth.

"Okay, you go back first" The old man said to the clansmen who led the way: "Tell the people in the stronghold the location, in case we never go back, when the reinforcements from the clan arrive, bring them here and go to the other side of the stream to find us"

The clansman who led the way answered, hurriedly returned along the way he came, and the remaining four of us walked to the stream, and were about to jump over, when the old man suddenly stopped, only to see him squatting down not far away, as if he had found something, and the three of us hurriedly leaned over to see what was going on.

I saw that the dirt the size of a basin in front of him was slightly different from the surroundings, as if it had just been turned over not long ago, and the three of us were puzzled, and the old man reached up and touched it, and said, "It's the traces left by the goblins."

"Goblins?" I muttered to myself, surprised.

"That's right, and the remaining essence looks like the one we captured last night," the old man said, grabbing a handful of dirt from it, holding it in his hand and closing his eyes as if to feel it carefully, then nodded and said: "The time of this trace should have been left before we caught it, so it seems that I probably guessed a thing or two"

"What's going on?" I couldn't help but ask.

The old-timer sighed and said: "My brother should have been waiting for us in the open space before last night, most likely this little bastard deliberately lured him, the goblin is extremely rare, my brother can't be fooled, probably chased it all the way here, encountered an ambush, the opponent is not simple, with my brother's strength, it was too late to resist, only the strength to throw the clan card to leave clues"

Hearing this, the three of us looked at each other.

"What's the matter, are you scared? It's too late to turn back now," said the old-timer, standing up and staring across the stream.

"Even if we are not as good as our opponents, we must give it a try, and if we look at it this way, we can't wait for reinforcements in a few days," Dan Er said firmly.

The old-timer nodded and said, "Okay, but before I go in, I need to get to know you guys first."

"Know us, what do you know?" asked Dan Er, puzzled.